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The following is a list of Native reserves in Quebec, Canada. It includes only the reserves that are officially designated as Indian reserve and fall under the jurisdiction of the Canadian government's Department of Indian and Northern Affairs .
Pages in category "Indian reserves in Quebec" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Tipee-shaped church in the Gesgapegiag Micmac Indian reserve in Quebec. Micmacs of Gesgapegiag are a Mi'gmaq First Nation in Quebec, Canada. They are based at Maria, Quebec on the Gaspé Peninsula and they have one Indian reserve, Gesgapegiag. In 2016 the band has a registered population of 1,501 members.
The three Atikamekw (sometimes spelled Atikamek) bands live in four communities located in the Mauricie region of Quebec. These First Nations are: Atikamekw of Opitciwan in Obedjiwan; Atikamekw of Manawan in Manawan; Wemotaci Atikamekw Council in Wemotaci and Coucoucache Indian Reserve No. 24; The Atikamek number approximately 4,900 people.
In Quebec, the Indian Act applies only to the First Nations of the southern part of the province, so Indian reserves are only found in the south. The Minister of Crown–Indigenous Relations assigns 34 tracts of land as Indian reserves and settlements under the Indian Act:
The Quebec Association of Indians, an ad hoc association of native northern Quebecers, won an injunction on 15 November 1973 blocking the construction of the hydroelectric project. They were represented by their lawyer James O'Reilly, who became one of the foremost experts in Indian law.
Kahnawake used section 107 of the Indian Act to nominate community members as justices of the peace, and in 1974 Justice Sharron was appointed as the first justice of the peace at the reserve. Many of the cases have dealt with traffic and parking violations, but her scope is wider, as the JP has jurisdiction over Criminal Code offences related ...
This is the list of communities in Quebec that have the legal status of Indian settlements (établissement amérindien, code=SE) as defined by Statistics Canada. [1]Note these are not the same as Indian reserves (réserve indien, code=IRI), nor does it include Cree villages (code=VC), Naskapi villages (code=VK), or Northern villages (Inuit, code=VN), which have a separate legal status.